Limitation of sensitization to injured parts of receptive fields in human skin C-nociceptors

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-147

  Schmelz, M ^a   Schmidt, R ^b   Ringkamp, M ^a   Forster, C ^a   Handwerker, H O ^a   Torebjork H E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C fiber; Microneurography; Receptive field; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; CAPSAICIN; IRRITANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE FIBER C; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SKIN RECEPTOR;

EID: 0029875711     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00228635     Document Type: Article

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